Past the sleeves!

I've now completed the set-in sleeve shaping on Tric, and have separated the sleeve stitches from the body. I also moved it to a needle with a longer cable so that I can more easily try it on as I go. Looking good so far, I think! I found the "Helpful Table" portion of the…

Tric’ing right along, after a hiccup

So, I ended up ripping out what I'd knit so far of Tric because I wasn't happy with how the picked-up stitches were looking; the pattern calls for you to edge the right collar with slipped stitches and the left collar with garter stitch, and that just...looked weird, once I'd picked up the stitches. Perhaps…

The beginning of Tric!

What is this crazy thing?? Oh, it's just the beginning of Tric! What you see so far represents the right-half of the back neck, plus the right shoulder, and a little bit of the left-half of the back neck. It'll make more sense when you see the next picture: The "try it on as you…

Finished Farmhouse Cardigan!

I was determined to finish this sweater by the end of the week, and I succeeded! Ravelry Project Page Pattern: Farmhouse Cardigan Yarn: Beaverslide Worsted in "Bracken"; about 5 skeins Needles: Size 8s Time to knit: a little over a month, but with a couple of weeks off while I was up in Wisconsin I'm…

so many ideas, so little time!

So, remember how yesterday I wrote about how the logic of brioche + double knitting was starting to click for me? Well, that click was enough for my creative brain to start churning out idea upon idea of how I could combine the two in knit designs, so I just had to get out some…

project progress!

I made it happen: as of this morning, there are now TWO sleeves completed for the Farmhouse cardigan! Today is actually on the chilly side, and rainy. That's a welcome break from the incredible heat we had over the weekend (thank goodness for air conditioning!), but kind of a bummer for taking photos. I'm looking…

two-color brioche + double-knitting = fun!

I ripped out my first attempt at Paris's Brioche Scarf and restarted on size 4 needles, and that turned out to be the right call...I'm delighted with the fabric that I'm getting now! The combination of two-color brioche and double-knitting is blowing my mind in the best way! I really feel like I've already kind…

sleeve the first: complete!

I promised a post about sweater progress, so here I present to you: a sleeve! I finished the first sleeve on my Farmhouse Cardigan a couple of days after we got back home from our trip to Wisconsin. It was nice to get back to the larger projects again! I always have to knit at…

a new project!

A new-to-me discovery this summer has been the Fruity Knitting podcast. I can’t remember how I came across it in the first place, but since the semester ended, I’ve been watching older episodes while I knit once I’ve finished whatever work I need to get done, and have been really enjoying it - enough that…

more listening, less tone-policing (please)

Hey, I finished another cowl! This time, it’s brown. How now, brown cowl? Which means that I now have EIGHT Willow Cowls, in a whole rainbow of colors! There’s not really much more to say about the cowl - I mean, it’s the eighth one I’ve knit, so I obviously like the pattern and I’ve…

A green cowl for the 4th of July

I've been up in Wisconsin, visiting my family, but have continued the summer of green knits by knitting (yet another) Willow Cowl, this time in green. Ravelry Project Page Pattern: Willow Cowl Yarn: Madelinetosh Twist Light in "Jade" Needles: size 5 circular Time to Knit: about a week And yes, despite being American, I'm rather…